Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
IMMANUEL KANTHe who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Dare to think!
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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